Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.
There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.
I don't want to pitch forever.
Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.
If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didn't use it much. He didn't want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.